Mandrarossa Literary Award: When Wine and Culture Meet

 

The Mandrarossa Literary Prize – The Sicily You Don’t Expect is born from the encounter between the world of wine and literature, celebrating the deep connection between storytelling and territory. Promoted by the renowned Mandrarossa winery in Menfi, in the heart of Sicily, the prize aims to offer a new perspective on the region, going beyond stereotypes and highlighting the island’s cultural and scenic richness. (more…)

“Il Geco e il Girasole” by the young Francesco Vito Ciaravino

“Il Geco e il Girasole” (G.C.L. Edizioni, 2024) is the new collection of poems by Francesco Vito Ciaravino, a writer from La Spezia born in 2001. The author is currently a student at the Faculty of Modern Literature at the University of Pisa and has also studied screenwriting at the School of Cinematographic Art in Genoa. (more…)

Resistenti al buio’ by Federica Introna

‘Resistenti al buio’ by Federica Introna is the third poetic collection by the Baroque writer and philologist, author of the collections ‘Terre di Sole’ (Il Filo, 2007) and ‘Sull’orlo del cerchio’ (Stilo Editrice, 2014). (more…)

New partnership between Hotel Bristol Palace and the Paganini Prize

In the newly renovated ‘Sala Paganini’, the flagship of the 5-star hotel in Genoa, the partnership between the Hotel Bristol Palace and the Paganini Prize will be officially presented on Wednesday 27th November, with a view to the 58th edition of the competition, to be held in Genoa from 14th to 26th October 2025. (more…)

Oh, but no nostalgia!

Last October 25, Time Records, an independent Brescian label founded in 1984 by Giacomo Maiolini, simultaneously launched two dance singles drawing on the fabulous 1980s. (more…)

Tension and twists and turns in Barbara Fabbroni’s noir-tinged mystery novel

“The Porcelain Doll Killer. Commissioner Antinori and the Dark Places of the Soul” by Barbara Fabbroni is a novel that skillfully interweaves criminology with mystery fiction. As a psychologist and criminologist, the author gives us a work dense with analysis and reflections on victimology, allowing readers to enter the complex psychological territory that characterizes both the victims and the killer himself. (more…)